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HEART OF ARLINGTON Neighborhood Association Arlington, Texas
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Welcome to the
Welcome to the
Our first general meeting of 2025 was on February 13. It featured James Orloski (pictured) with Arlington's parks department. He updated us on conditions in and plans for our neighborhood parks, including long-term development of the walkway linking UTA with the Entertainment District, and the upcoming dog park downtown along the Union Pacific tracks. Animal services director Ashley Woolnough also gave a presentation on the city's animal shelter and programs for feral cats and loose dogs, as well as some interesting insight into the exotic animals that have been surrendered to the shelter. While the bird flu is creating havoc with egg prices, she assured us no bird flu has been detected in Arlington.
We represent a collection of diverse neighborhoods located just south of Downtown Arlington, Texas.
From our quaint MidCentury neighborhoods to parts of Arlington's bustling Downtown and the University of Texas at Arlington, to our mom-and-pop businesses and chain stores, to our religious campuses and apartment complexes, we try to balance both the charm of our leafy community and the changes taking place in our strategic urban corner of the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex.
We are not a homeowners association. Instead, we have the pulse of major concerns and opportunities that affect not just us, but all of Arlington. For example, Johnson Creek runs through most of HANA, as does the city's busiest boulevard, Cooper Street, and HANA members have participated in various projects and studies related to each.
We boast one of the city's most robust neighborhood action plans and are consulted about proposed developments both inside and near our boundaries. We have high standards when it comes to new construction and work hard to balance the interests and expectations of all stakeholders.
Fortunately, we benefit from having a great community legacy, established by many Arlington business and civic leaders who were the original builders of our neighborhoods. These notables include the James Martin family, after whom AISD's Martin High School is named; the Farrar family, which still owns an office building on Park Row; plus the Caton, Chen, Hightower, Jordan, Joeckel, King, Landrum, Maner, Mathes, Moore, Terry, and Watson families - just to name a few. UTA professors have lived here, and some of our earliest subdivisions housed the first workers at Arlington's ever-expanding GM plant. Even Arlington's oldest existing house , built in 1893, is within HANA's boundaries.
Generally speaking, HANA's boundaries run from Border Street on the north to Collins Street on the east, Pioneer Parkway on the south, and Cooper Street on the west, with a recent inclusion of the Meadow Oaks and Cedar Springs Terrace neighborhoods around Mitchell Street.
If you live here or own a business here, we welcome you to participate with us!
HEART OF ARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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